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JULY 2008 Monday, July 7, 7:30 p.m.: The 8th Regiment Band of Rome, Georgia, will present a free concert at Fairview Moravian Church Fellowship Hall, 6650 Silas Creek Parkway, Winston-Salem. This band presents a program intended to be “a museum of 19th-century American emotions”. Admission is free, and donations will be received in support of the Moravian Music Foundation. For information about this band, see their website: www.8thregimentband.com. Wednesday Noon Recital Series on the 1800 Tannenberg Organ, Old Salem Visitors Center, Winston-Salem, NC: July 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30, featuring students from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Admission is free! The Salem Band continues its summer concert series with free concerts at 8:00 p.m. on Salem Square in Winston-Salem on the following Tuesday evenings: July 1, July 22, August 15, and August 19. If it’s raining in Salem at 7:00 p.m., that evening’s concert is cancelled. Bethabara Concert Band presents free concerts on Thursdays, July 10 (6-8:30 p.m.), August 14 (6-8:30 p.m.), September 11 (5:30-8:00 p.m.), October 9 (5:30-8 p.m.). These take place at Historic Bethabara Park, 2147 Bethabara Road, Winston-Salem, NC; phone 336-924-8191; info@bethabarapark.org. Bring a lawn chair or blanket! AUGUST 2008 The Carolina Chamber Symphony presents the inaugural season of a summer music festival during August 2008 in Winston-Salem. The Festival is presented by Old Salem Museums & Gardens and the Carolina Chamber Music Players. Carolina Summer Music Festival runs from Thursday August 14, 2008 through Sunday, August 31, 2008. For more information about the Festival overall, see http://carolinachambersymphony.org/concerts/festival.html. For tickets and information, call (336) 682-8524. Music in Revolutionary Salem: Sunday, August 24, 2008, 3:00 p.m., Gray Auditorium, Old Salem Visitors Center: This concert is a glimpse into the musical life of the Moravian town of Salem in the period during the American Revolutionary War. Rarely heard gems from the vault at the Moravian Music Archives include works for strings and harpsichord, a set of sacred songs, and a patriotic medley including “Variations on Yankee Doodle” and the “George Washington March”. Marilyn Taylor, soprano, and Susan Bates, organ and harpsichord join the Carolina Chamber Symphony Players. Pre-concert discussion with Philip Dunigan. SEPTEMBER 2008 A Combined Band Concert will be held on Sunday, September 7, at 3:00 p.m. in Salem Square, Winston-Salem, featuring the Salem Band, Bethabara Band, and Winston-Salem Community Band. A Birthday Celebration lovefeast for Christian Renatus, Graf von Zinzendorf (Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf’s son) will be held September 19 at the Moravian Museum, Bethlehem (to be held in conjunction with the exhibit Moravian Festkultur, August – September 2008). Time and ticket information will follow! Kernersville Moravian Church, Kernersville, NC, invites you to the next in the Community Organ Recital Series, Sunday, September 21, 4:00 p.m.: Thomas Murray, professor of organ and university organist, Yale University, performing on the J.F. Nordlie Organ, Opus 45. Free. The music program of Home Moravian Church will present its annual Song of Salem Concert and Lecture on Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in Gray Auditorium at the Old Salem Visitor Center. This year’s program, Song of Salem: In All Things Love -Variations on a Moravian Theme, will focus attention on the meaning of lovefeast in the Moravian tradition and the diversity of the various customs for celebrating lovefeast, including diener attire. Lynda Alexander, Director of Music, Susan Foster, Organist, the Choir of Home Moravian Church, and the Collegium Musicum of Salem will be joined by Dr. Craig Atwood, Comenius Scholar for Home Moravian Church and Wake Forest University who will present the lecture portion of the program. |